#AI #Musk"Elon Musk Hopes His New Factory Will Help AI Supplant Life on EarthThe GOP’s biggest donor sounds fine with hu...

#AI #Musk"Elon Musk Hopes His New Factory Will Help AI Supplant Life on EarthThe GOP’s biggest donor sounds fine with humans dying off—after we get 'super intelligence to the stars.'(. . .)'We aspire to be a galactic civilization,' Terafab’s site says, and 'harness all the energy in a galaxy.' But Musk’s recent statements raise a question about who, exactly, the 'we' is—including a post he made last week that 'Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader.'A rough translation of what he seems to mean: humanity would fulfill its cosmic purpose by building AI—under Musk’s leadership—that tramples us all on its way to colonizing the universe.Musk once professed to oppose such ideas, including when he helped found OpenAI with the stated mission to 'advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.' But AI successionism—the belief that humans are merely a stepping-stone in cosmic evolution on th...